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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UGA is a high quality school that students can go to for free or nearly free.

Why are you concerned? [/quote]

What a myth. UGA is not free or nearly free for most in state residents. [/quote]
I live in GA. Most, if not all, of in-state students accepted to UGA will start off with the Zell scholarship as you need grades that meet (and in most cases exceed) the Zell minimum requirements to be accepted at UGA. Where some kids run into trouble is that you need a a 3.3 to renew Zell. Hope requires a 3.0.

Our DD is at UGA on Zell. It pays for 100% of tuition, but we do pay for room and board and other miscellaneous costs.

Hope covers approx 80-90% of tuition. You must have a 3.0 GPA in high school.

Zell covers 100% of tuition. You must have a 3.7 GPA and at least 1200 on math and reading on the SAT or at least a 26 on ACT.

(The GA legislature just passed the budget to bump Hope up to 100% of tuition for the 2024 fiscal year.)[/quote]

Okay but as there is more to UGA than just tuition, it is certainly is not free.

That doesn’t include the various fees, room and board. Facilities fees; etc.  I also live in GA with a kid at a different state school with “free” tuition and I can show you the statements.

Please stop the myth that school is free for in state. The tuition is the smallest part of the bill.[/quote]
Damn, girl. It's not that serious. But ok, let me rephrase: most, if not all, students at UGA go there [b]tuition free[/b]. The $15k/year or whatever they pay for room and board and other incidentals thus makes it a teeny tiny fraction of the cost that they'd pay to go to most private schools, out of school publics, etc. For that reason, you see a LOT of high achieving GA residents staying in-state, to take advantage of this wonderful deal. It's (usually) not because they're provincial, or because they can't get in anywhere else, which is what OP seems to be implying in her post. It's because it's a crazy good financial deal that is very hard to turn down unless you're really, really wealthy or have some other extenuating circumstance. [/quote]

To be fair, I (OP) wasn't implying anything. I was concerned it might be the case, because i couldn't see another explanation. Tuition assistance we aren't eligible for and therefore had no reason to know about makes sense.[/quote]

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